View looking east down 10th Street, taken from the 10th and Baltimore intersection in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The First National Bank (later home to the Central branch of the Kansas City Public...

Photo and information on Charles Smith (1867-1948), architect of the Kansas City School District from 1898 to 1936. Native of Ohio coming to Kansas City in 1898 as a designer of several public schools...

Downtown street scene showing a man standing on the north side of E. 10th St. between Main and Walnut facing west towards the Victor Building (10th & Main). The Land Bank Building and New England Bank...

Biographical sketch of Godfrey Swenson, president of the Swenson Construction Company in the Victor Building. Born in Sweden in 1876 and emigrating to Kansas City in 1896 as a stonemason, establishing...

Biographical sketch of Jerome Joffee, a Missouri state senator and native Kansas Citian born in 1895 and starting out as a lawyer in the Victor building before moving to the Commerce building and then...

Photo and bio of Robert Lumley Winter, or Robert Winter, owner of the R. L. Winter & Company, a "real estate investment business." Born in Canada in 1857 and emigrating to Kansas City in the early 1880s...

A portion of Kansas City from W. 9th Street south to W. 11th Street and from Baltimore Avenue east to Main Street, showing buildings and streets. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining...

The materials within the KCPL Reference Hard to Find (HTF) Collection were compiled by Kansas City Public Library reference librarians and staff members to provide an easy to access source of information...